The Labour chief acquired a retro railway poster from Mr Barnier’s house area in France.

It’s all designed to construct belief and generate bonhomie. Or on this case to additionally generate some publicity for a reasonably run-of-the-mill assembly.

Nevertheless it rounds off a bumper week for diplomatic items, after the French President Emmanuel Macron gave the Chinese language President an eight-year-old horse.

The anti-Brexit Open Britain marketing campaign was not impressed with the Brexiteers’ present to Mr Barnier, nevertheless.

The group’s deputy director Francis Grove-White stated: “We now have reached peak Brexit. Self-important charlatans marching round Brussels with hampers of quintessentially British merchandise, a lot of that are owned by corporations which have stated they’re deeply anxious concerning the affect of Brexit, does nothing to additional the nationwide curiosity.”